What Happens When a Farmers Market Slows Down©

What Happens When a Farmers Market Slows Down©

By Arlene Wright-Correll

The season has end at most Farmers Market, but that doesn’t mean the work has stopped.  Many of the vendor’s will keep right on working with their high tunnels, green houses and seed starting kits to be able to have strong, healthy, chemical free organic plants for you when we open up in the spring.

It may seem odd to be talking about spring as the trees turn colors and the wind picks up to make the leaves drop to the ground creating a season called fall.  However, tempus fugit as the saying goes.

Many of us will be considering our gardens and once we get through the upcoming holidays seeds will start coming to mind.

It is important to consider what kind of seeds you buy since most of the seeds that are cheap and available in the local seed racks are genetically altered seeds or what we call hybrid seeds.

Seriously consider planting and growing a healthier crop for your family’s consumption or for sale.  Most heirloom seeds cost a little more, but they are usually certified organic, or non-hybrid/non GMO seeds.

Is it any wonder more of us deal with cancer than any other generation?  Why?  It is simply in what we eat and drink.  Chemicals cause most of our disorders and we seem to think chemicals will cure it. 

You can often get heirloom, certified organic, or non-hybrid/non GMO seeds right in your local area like we can in my home town of Munfordville and especially at our Hart County Farmers Market next April and you can get those seedlings and starter plants from those venders who use heirloom, certified organic, or non-hybrid/non GMO seeds.  Then you will be having a good head start to good health providing you do not use chemical sprays on them.

An added benefit to planting heirloom seeds is that you can save and dry out the seeds from cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, melons and other seeded produce and replant them the following year.  For veggies that do not have seeds, just let one or two plants go to seed and you will have all the seed you need for the following year. 

Most seeds will keep for 5 years providing you put them in an envelope in a cool, dry, dark place.  I do not recommend the freezer because the freezer has moisture.  I just put them in envelopes and put them in old shoe boxes with covers up on shelves where mice cannot get into them. 

Make today the first day of a healthier life for you and your family with healthy heirloom seeds, fruits and vegetables. You can buy Home Farm Herbery Heirloom seeds at http://www.localharvest.org/store/M48630http://www.localharvest.org/store/M48630